Zhang, Jianhua; Wang, Peng; Qu, Baozhi - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 284-295
We investigate bank risk taking, efficiency and their relation to law enforcement using a unique sample of 133 Chinese city commercial banks across 31 regions for the 1999–2008 period. We find that stronger law enforcement tends to promote greater bank risk taking in the region. Furthermore,...